Bravo to Michael A. Walsh for straightening out the record and defending Rick Perry for calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme (“Social Security’s Monstrous Lie,” PostOpinion, Sept. 12).

It’s amazing how naive most Americans are on this issue.

We finally have a politician who is willing to address this pressing issue instead of kicking the can down the road.

He is giving the necessary wake-up call that this colossal house of cards, better known as Social Security, is going to collapse.

Perry is not looking to dismantle Social Security; our federal government has been busy doing that.

Bruce Sullivan

Manhattan

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The question being asked every day: Is Social security a Ponzi scheme?

The answer is “yes” if we let it run out, and “no” if we fix it.

Gene Miller

Port Orange, NJ

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Can I assume that Walsh, Perry and all other conservatives who assail “entitlements” at every turn will stand on their principles and turn down their Social Security checks when they become eligible to collect?